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Frederick Douglass: You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave!

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave!
Said by
Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

In a soliloquy addressed to the ships on the Chesapeake Bay, Douglass laments his enslaved condition in contrast to their freedom.

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